Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have managed to decode and reconstruct dynamic visual experiences processed by the human brain.

Currently, researchers are only able to reconstruct movie clips people have already viewed. However, the breakthrough is expected to pave the way for reproducing the movies inside our heads that no one else sees - such as dreams and memories.

if they can scan remotely they can potentially read whatever you might visualize at the time. so yes it is very bad for privacy but at the same time, how much do you really visualize day in and out? some people more than others i know, but when you do - what is it? it is more often than not daydreaming, or conceptual thinking.

i can see it being used in corporate & physical warfare for sure, not so much privacy but security concerns. strategies and maps are visualized often, as well as locations on said maps.

but also for therapy/communication with those with lesser brain activity or impairments, and possibly even other species!

This reminds me of a ghost in the shell episode (I think it was in the 2nd gig)

Where a director made a movie that never made it to the big screen for various reasons. (I think it was something to do with his arrogance) but anyway....

when he died he had his brain transfered to a 'hub' where people could come and browse it like youtube. or going to to an old cinema on weekends to watch old B&W movies with john wayne and other actors of the same era etc etc.

People connected to his Brain/hub while surfing the net and they never woke up again. Because the directors movie the people stopped to watch never ended. so they were stuck in a sort of limbo or almost comatose state waiting for it to finish

This is fascinating and scary at the same time. Just think of the privacy invasions you would have with this technology.

You can imagine people having to undergo this under duress (eg police interrogations, insurance checks, job interviews etc) with all their innermost thoughts and fears that they share with no-one, open wide to other people.

I think there would be an almighty outcry which would hold these abuses back significantly.

This is fascinating and scary at the same time. Just think of the privacy invasions you would have with this technology.

You can imagine people having to undergo this under duress (eg police interrogations, insurance checks, job interviews etc) with all their innermost thoughts and fears that they share with no-one, open wide to other people.

I think there would be an almighty outcry which would hold these abuses back significantly.

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Time for security software firms like Norton or Kaspersky to make and sell firewalls for our brainzzzzzzz

and sell Anti-zombie defense as an optional $20 upgrade so if the world was ever through into a zombie apocalypse. we know the zombies cant take our brains if we have the lastest anti-zombie database and signatures installed.

It makes perfect sense.... People are always thinking about the 'what ifs' of life. and getting eaten by zombies tops that list.

This will give them a peice of mind while firewall software devs laugh their way to the bank until the bank assistant turns and eats them.

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Christ....this is no worse then that episode of Southpark where terrorists invade imagination land.

Time for security software firms like Norton or Kaspersky to make and sell firewalls for our brainzzzzzzz

and sell Anti-zombie defense as an optional $20 upgrade so if the world was ever through into a zombie apocalypse. we know the zombies cant take our brains if we have the lastest anti-zombie database and signatures installed.

It makes perfect sense.... People are always thinking about the 'what ifs' of life. and getting eaten by zombies tops that list.

This will give them a peice of mind while firewall software devs laugh their way to the bank until the bank assistant turns and eats them.

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Christ....this is no worse then that episode of Southpark where terrorists invade imagination land.